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Apple is gearing up to enter the smartwatch market with a wearable device to monitor health data set to debut in October, Japanese newspaper Nikkei Business/Trends/Apple-flexes-healthcare-muscles-with-new-wearable-device" target="blank" rel="nofollow"> reported . The tech giant plans to produce 3-5 million smartwatch device per month -- more than the total 2013 sales worldwide of watch-like devices, according to the Nikkei report, citing anonymous...

By Emma Thomasson BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. sportswear group Nike is banking on its sponsorship of more of the world's best-known soccer stars than Adidas in its battle to overtake the German firm as the sport's top-selling brand at its World Cup this summer. Nike has signed six of the 10 most marketable footballers in the world, to just three for Adidas and one for smaller German brand Puma, according to a new ranking by sports marketing research group Repucom published on Wednesday.

By JÃ rn Poltz MUNICH (Reuters) - German sportswear company Adidas has given a more precise sales growth target for 2014, amounting to a rise of up to 8 percent, as it gets a lift from the soccer World Cup that starts in Brazil next month. As a World Cup sponsor, Adidas provides the official match ball and is kitting out nine teams of the 32 finalists, including former world champions Spain, Germany and Argentina. "This year we will add 1-1.2 billion euros ($1.4-1.6 billion)

FUERTH, Germany (Reuters) - The long-serving chief executive of German sportswear company Adidas sought to rebuff criticism of his leadership from shareholders on Thursday, as the firm struggles to stop the advance of market leader Nike . The world's second-biggest sportswear firm has been losing market share in its home territory of western Europe to Nike, which is challenging the German company's dominance in the soccer market ahead of the World...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Nike Chief Executive Mark Parker said on Thursday the footwear and athletic apparel company was considering shifting its production within China following a major strike at a supplier's factory. Thousands of shoe factory workers staged one of China's biggest strikes earlier this month over conditions at Hong Kong-listed Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings Ltd - a $5.6 billion manufacturer of footwear for Nike Inc , Adidas and other international brands. Most of those workers have since returned to work after the company agreed to some of their demands.

Nike is not in the altruism business. It is in the product selling business. So the sporting goods giant's decision to extend its partnership with USA Track & Field until the end of time - actually 2040 - may not solve issues for hugely successful but financially strapped track athletes like Lashinda Demus, an intermediate hurdles world champion and Olympic silver medalist. Demus spoke for many of her sporting compatriots in 2011 when she said, “We know we're competing in a dying sport. People are making $15,000 a year and calling themselves a professional athlete.